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Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper? Ridiculous! He was actually Draculahttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/dec/03/walter-sickert-jack-ripper-sex-evil
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has claimed Sickert was the killer – but is it fair to posthumously punish an artist for capturing sex and sleaze in the city?<p>Poor Sickert. This imaginative British artist who captured a low-life late Victorian world of music halls and shadowy interiors is one of the most compelling artists in the new Tate Britain. His painting <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sickert-minnie-cunningham-at-the-old-bedford-t02039" title="">Minnie Cunningham at the Old Bedford (1892)</a>, with its flare of a red dress in the flickering theatre lights, is, for instance, a work of character, sensuality and modernist edge – at his best, Sickert strives to be an <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hilaire-germain-edgar-degas-miss-la-la-at-the-cirque-fernando" title="">English Degas</a>.</p><p>But while <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hilaire-germain-edgar-degas-combing-the-hair-la-coiffure" title="">Degas</a> and Toulouse-Lautrec were painting dancers and prostitutes in Paris, <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/degas-sickert-and-toulouse-lautrec" title="">Sickert had the misfortune to cast his daring eye on London</a>. There, he braved Victorian censure to paint nudes as well as nightlife scenes. His reward, in the 21st century, is to be <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ripper_jack_the.shtml" title="">accused of being Jack the Ripper</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/dec/03/walter-sickert-jack-ripper-sex-evil">Continue reading...</a>Art and designCultureTate BritainArtPatricia CornwellCrime fictionJack the RipperTue, 03 Dec 2013 15:09:30 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/dec/03/walter-sickert-jack-ripper-sex-evilPhotograph: TateDemonic Degas … A detail from Le Lit de Cuivre by Walter Richard Sickert (c1906). Photograph: TatePhotograph: TateDemonic Degas … A detail from Le Lit de Cuivre by Walter Richard Sickert (c1906). Photograph: TateJonathan Jones2013-12-03T15:09:30ZSherlock Holmes is still a man for todayhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/21/sherlock-holmes-man-of-moment
Conan Doyle's detective was born in an age of empire and intrigue, much like our own. That's why Sherlock is still relevant<p>Sherlock Holmes is back. As usual. This Christmas holiday, the engaging modern-times <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/sherlock" title="">Sherlock</a> returns to the BBC while a second <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/dec/20/sherlock-holmes-opening-game-shadows?newsfeed=true" title="">Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes film</a> tops the UK box office. But these are just the latest in an inexhaustible sequence of Holmes adaptations.</p><p>It is no secret that Sherlock Holmes is one of the world's best-loved fictional characters (and <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070821102700AAFooQI" title="">the one people find hardest to accept as fiction rather than fact</a>). But why was late-Victorian Britain so good at inventing timeless heroes and villains?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/21/sherlock-holmes-man-of-moment">Continue reading...</a>SherlockArthur Conan DoyleTelevisionCrime dramaCrime fictionBooksCrimeAction and adventureWed, 21 Dec 2011 14:37:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/21/sherlock-holmes-man-of-momentPhotograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Warner BrosContemporary detective … Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Warner BrosPhotograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Warner BrosContemporary detective … Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Warner BrosJonathan Jones2011-12-21T14:37:05Z